While without a doubt the internet has made it easier to search for jobs-from such general job-seeking sites as Monster.com to more specialized ones such as JournalismJobs.com-it has also, in some cases, made it more difficult for someone to get hired. According to a survey released in April by CareerBuilder, LLC, nearly 2 in 5 companies use social networking sites to research job candidates. And a March survey from Eurocom Worldwide shows that 1 in 5 technology industry executives admit to rejecting an applicant based on his or her social media profile.

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This paper takes a look at the hard truths and common misconceptions surrounding big data. In particular, it focuses on five common myths about large-scale analytics, athen offers a glimpse at the next steps necessary to make big data work for you.

New Gartner research predicts that 75% of IT organizations will have a bimodal capability by 2017. Bimodal is a critical capability that
combines the solid conventional capabilities of IT alongside a capability to respond to the level of uncertainty and the need for
agility required for a digital transformation. According to Gartner,
half of IT organizations that have a bimodal capability will make a
mess. Learn more about Gartner's predictions for common mistakes that CIOs will make and how to avoid them.

"VMware Horizon View is an enterprise-class desktop virtualization solution that delivers virtualized or remote desktops and applications to end users through a single platform. Horizon View is a tightly integrated, end-to-end solution built on the industry-leading virtualization platform, VMware vSphere.
Although Horizon View enables levels of availability and agility of desktop services unmatched by traditional PCs, the complexity of deploying and managing thousands of virtual desktops in a VMware environment can be daunting without the right tools. Storage is often the leading cause of end-user performance problems. The NetApp all-flash FAS solution with the FAS8000 platform solves the performance problems commonly found in VDI deployments.
In this reference architecture, NetApp tested VMware Horizon View user and administrator workloads to demonstrate how the NetApp all-flash FAS solution eliminates the most common barriers to virtual desktop adoption.
The testing covered common

The key challenge of B2B selling today: customer purchase processes are overwhelmed by an increasingly large and diverse number of customer stakeholders who can’t reach consensus on a common course of action. Learn how to overcome buyer dysfunction and guide customer to consensus.

Global competition for talent, outsourcing labor, compliance legislation, remote workers, aging populations – these are just a few of the daunting challenges faced by HR organizations today. Yet the most commonly monitored workforce metrics do very little to deliver true insight into these topics. Leaders need to graduate from metrics to analytics, surfacing the important connections and patterns in their data to make better workforce decisions.

In this brief, we’ll take a look at common use cases that show how integration between McAfee Advanced Threat Defense and other security controls from McAfee, a part of Intel Security, create a multipronged strategy designed to make enterprise defenses both more effective in detecting previously unknown malware and globally responsive when a new attack occurs.

Get free access ($195 value) to this Gartner research that identifies 12 commonly observed network security practices that reduce network availability, increase expenditure or risks, and alienate end users. CISOs should avoid these practices, and they can do so without sacrificing security posture or breaking the bank.

Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity
suite, includes online versions of Microsoft’s most
popular solutions, like Exchange and SharePoint,
storage through OneDrive, and several mobile apps,
including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook,
Publisher, and Skype for Business. Office 365 is central
to Microsoft’s strategy as the company evolves into a
mobile-first, cloud-first software and solutions provider.
Many MobileIron customers are increasingly using
Office 365 on mobile devices instead of on traditional
PCs. Therefore the ability to secure and deploy Office
365 on mobile devices using MobileIron is a common
requirement.

For every mobile user, staying productive requires secure access to critical apps such as email, contacts, and calendar. These personal information management (PIM) apps are some of the most commonly used apps in the enterprise, so IT must ensure that users can seamlessly and securely access them on any device, including Android and iOS. The ultimate goal is to prevent data loss while preserving the native app experience users expect.

This whitepaper serves as a guide to identifying an under-performing EHR and replacing it with a solution that delivers results. It offers answers to a number of common questions about EHR adoption and replacement and demonstrates how the right EHR can help practices get more money and more control, freeing up physicians to focus on patient care.

IT used to be so simple. Companies owned their own technology equipment and purchased enterprise licenses for many of the applications anybody in the organization might care to use. But then the cloud emerged, and mobile, and social media, and IoT; the world of IT has never been the same. Today's businesses are software-driven enterprises with technology capability distributed throughout the company, utilizing countless third-party cloud-based applications. This new organization requires an cultural shift in the IT organization.
Read this whitepaper to learn:
-How businesses can reorganize themselves into lightweight, agile, modular businesses able to respond to innovations in SaaS, mobile, and analytics
-How to build a technological architecture that can accommodate new technology yet still extract value from on-premises systems
-The advantages of an API-led connected architecture vs. old SOA approaches

The examples that follow illustrate some of the actual challenges that legacy ERP solutions cannot meet. The examples are placed within 5 broad categories of benefits that NetSuite OneWorld customers realised after deploying the cloud-based solution.
1. Standardising business processes and data
2. Omnichannel on a common platform
3. Multiple brands on a common platform
4. Rapid and easy global expansion
5. Managing multicurrency, international business

DDoS attackers launch hundreds of DDoS attacks every day. When a DDoS attack strikes an organization, panic is common. No one knows why systems and applications are failing, who to call, or what questions to ask. Meanwhile, senior leaders want answers.
Planning ahead and being prepared is your best defense against DDoS attacks.
This white paper explores best practices for building and maintaining a DDoS protection plan. You’ll learn what to expect from a DDoS attack, how to prepare, what to put in a DDoS runbook, and how to test your plan.

What do these market-defining trends have in common?
· Analytics for all
· Analytics as competitive differentiator
· Internet of Things
· Artificial intelligence/Machine learning/Cognitive computing
· Real-time analytics/event management
They all rely on data – timely, accurate data delivered within an insightful context – to deliver value.
The question is: who in the enterprise is most qualified and prepared to help deliver on the vision and
values of the data-driven enterprise?
It’s going to take a special type of professional to deliver that value to enterprises. Organizations are
seeking professionals to step forward and take the lead, provide guidance and lend expertise to move
into the brave new world of digital. The move to digital and all that it entails – sophisticated data
analytics, online customer engagement and digital process efficiency – requires, above all, the skills
and knowledge associated with handling data and turning it into insights. The move to digital is also a

What if the cloud could radically improve your customer’s experience, your operations, and your bottom line? There’s a reason why many organizations are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud for contact centers.
This eBook, focuses on two profiles for small contact centers, small business and small of large - a small contact center that is part of a much larger enterprise. Get key insights from independent market research that will help you make a case to take your customer communications platform to the cloud. With the right solution, your business can benefit from enterprise-quality capabilities at a price you can afford. And you can realize a return on investment in as little as three months!
Download this eBook and learn:
• How to calculate ROI and time-to-value in different types of small contact center profiles
• What factors to consider when selecting a cloud vendor
• Three common myths about the cloud

Cloud-based solutions are revolutionizing the way that enterprises conduct business. These web-based versions of common business tools, like analytics or document management tools, retain most or all of the functionality of their desktop versions and provide significant access, customization, and utility to end users. More organizations are ditching on-premises solutions and adopting cloud-based tools, also known as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), "hosted," or "on-demand" solutions. The are becoming invaluable assets in today's agile and mobile workforce.

The public cloud has rapidly moved past the novelty, curiosity stage to the business critical initiative stage for nearly every established organization. In a 2016 IDC CloudView survey, 80% of the enterprises contacted were actively engaged in public-cloud projects. The driving forces are a realization that the public cloud is “enterprise ready” and the need to be more agile, more responsive and more competitive. For those organizations that already have an existing physical IT infrastructure, the common starting point is a hybrid approach, which extends the existing data center into Microsoft® Azure™.

Today, working remotely has never been easier, due to the ubiquity of mobile devices and reliable Internet connectivity. The ease with which a worker can get connected to the corporate network delivers the impression that your co-worker is down the hall, when in fact they are traveling internationally. Global Workplace Analytics’ research shows that increasingly, working remotely is not only commonplace, it is encouraged and has shown to improve productivity.

Exploit kits, which first became popular in 2006, are used to automate the exploitation of vulnerabilities on victims’ machines, most commonly while users are browsing the web. Over the past decade they have become an extremely popular means for criminal groups to distribute mass malware or remote access tools (RAT), because they lower the barrier to entry for attackers and can enable opportunistic attacks at scale. To understand this phenomenon, we must understand the ecosystem that surrounds exploit kits, including the actors, campaigns and terminology involved.

"Your video business is poised for dramatic growth. Can your provider keep up? SVOD revenues are rising more than 30$ annually.
Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and identify a video provider that can grow with you.
Download the first entry in IBM Cloud Video’s OTT Success Series to discover:
-Important distinctions that can mean the difference between scalable success and an embarrassing false start
-How to anticipate and avoid common pitfalls in the OTT 2.0 environment
-The right questions to ask when taking your video business to the next level
-How the right provider can help you master multiscreen delivery, drive subscriber growth and reduce churn"

"Your video business is poised for dramatic growth. Can your provider keep up? SVOD revenues are rising more than 30$ annually.
Learn how to avoid common pitfalls and identify a video provider that can grow with you.
Download the first entry in IBM Cloud Video’s OTT Success Series to discover:
-Important distinctions that can mean the difference between scalable success and an embarrassing false start
-How to anticipate and avoid common pitfalls in the OTT 2.0 environment
-The right questions to ask when taking your video business to the next level
-How the right provider can help you master multiscreen delivery, drive subscriber growth and reduce churn"

Data is the hottest topic in business today. In discussions that range from
understanding performance to predicting future outcomes, data is at the core.
However, data has a bad reputation. Because businesses have been collecting data for
decades, the amount that we must analyze can seem insurmountable. Simply saying
“data” is enough to conjure images of someone poring over a thick stack of
spreadsheets, manually going through row after row to identify performance, trends
and figure out what to do with them. This intimidating view is all too common.